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[[File:Ash Passimian disguise.png|thumb|250px|Ash disguised as a Passimian]] | [[File:Ash Passimian disguise.png|thumb|250px|Ash disguised as a Passimian]] | ||
This episode was [[Banned episodes|skipped in the dub]] due to | This episode was [[Banned episodes|skipped in the dub]] due to {{Ash}} wearing dark face paint resembling {{wp|blackface}} during the second half of the episode, in order to imitate the appearance of a {{p|Passimian}}. Blackface is perceived as a negative racial stereotype of African Americans in the United States. | ||
This follows the banning of ''[[Holiday Hi-Jynx]]'', ''[[EP090|Stage Fight!]]'', ''[[EP099|The Mandarin Island Miss Match]]'', and [[EP250]], which were banned due to a similar {{pkmn|controversy}} involving {{p|Jynx}}. This also makes it the first main series episode that aired in Japan to not be [[dub]]bed since [[DP120]], 417 episodes earlier, as well as the first and only banned episode of ''[[Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon]]''. It is also the first episode to be banned outside of Asia since [[EP250]], 753 episodes earlier; and the first non-[[clip show]] episode to be skipped by [[The Pokémon Company International]]. | This follows the banning of ''[[Holiday Hi-Jynx]]'', ''[[EP090|Stage Fight!]]'', ''[[EP099|The Mandarin Island Miss Match]]'', and [[EP250]], which were banned due to a similar {{pkmn|controversy}} involving {{p|Jynx}}. This also makes it the first main series episode that aired in Japan to not be [[dub]]bed since [[DP120]], 417 episodes earlier, as well as the first and only banned episode of ''[[Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon]]''. It is also the first episode to be banned outside of Asia since [[EP250]], 753 episodes earlier; and the first non-[[clip show]] episode to be skipped by [[The Pokémon Company International]]. | ||